3 papers
cs.RO2026
Do My Samples Help? Compute Budget Allocation for Real-World Sampling-Based MPC in Contact-Rich Manipulation
Magnus Dierking, João Carvalho, Vince Kurtz +3
Sampling-based model predictive control (SMPC) is increasingly practical for contact-rich manipulation because GPU-based physics simulators enable real-time evaluation of large num…
cs.RO2026
Real-World Deployment of Massively Parallel Sampling-Based MPC for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Magnus Dierking, Joao Carvalho, An Thai Le +2
Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (SMPC) is a promising strategy for contact-rich robotic manipulation, combining gradient-free optimization with massively parallel GPU simul…
cs.RO2025
Ark: An Open-source Python-based Framework for Robot Learning
Magnus Dierking, Christopher E. Mower, Sarthak Das +10
Robotics has made remarkable hardware strides-from DARPA's Urban and Robotics Challenges to the first humanoid-robot kickboxing tournament-yet commercial autonomy still lags behind…